..I often don’t sit in my assigned seat because the system has completely ignored my request for a facing window and put me in a windowless backwards seat...
If it's with LNER (or XC or Avanti), you can select your seat, if you book directly with them; or alternatively, if you book with us, we will let you select a seat on any operator (where available/applicable).
But from now on, can we try to stick to the removal of Off Peak in this thread please?
If anyone has any proposals for alternative systems, these can be posted in the relevant forum section, thanks
What I was trying to get at is that LNER (and others) force me to pick a train for the outward journey..
LNER (and a few others) have set their trains to compulsory reservation in the data.
Where "open return" fares available, sites that allow the "open return" option (which our site now does) can bypass this requirement.
However, with single leg pricing, that is no longer possible; whether it's all part of LNER's plan to try to act as if reservations are essential on their trains, I am not sure.
In any case, the +/- 70 minute time window doesn't actually achieve that anyway, although of course LNER want people to get a reservation for the alternative train, but it isn't essential, despite the data suggesting otherwise.
The whole thing is a mess of LNER/DfT's making.